Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What an incredible, easygoing place the Senate is!" he wrote. "As I stood in the lobby a boy in knickerbockers walked by with a carton of ice cream and a cardboard spoon...
...vertebra. No operation is possible. His skill, which has saved so many lives that mean little to him, can do nothing for Joan, who means much to him. Joan dies the day the Germans invade Poland, and the world, like a blob of soggy ice cream oozing off a spoon, slides into World...
Other notable items: a delicately carved jade burial mask designed to fit over a mummy's face; a breastplate with three leaping, snarling jaguars; a gold flute on which two baby lizards crawled; a toothpick-size silver spoon with a tiny monkey perched on the handle-designed to scoop wax out of a Peruvian aristocrat's ears...
...some of Bruegel's details. The matter of the bridegroom in Bruegel's Rustic Wedding (see cut), for instance, has long been a matter of high dispute. Which is he? Viennese Scholar Gustav Glük pointed to the glutton seated halfway down the table with the spoon in his mouth, perhaps because he is the only man looking straight out of the canvas. But his unimportant position at the festive board seems to rule him out. Baron van der Elst (The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages) decided that the groom just wasn't there...
...Eggshells do not fall apart at the slightest tap of a spoon because the oval shape distributes the force of the blow around the whole egg. The Navy's Quonset huts-similarly curved-have survived winds of more than 100 m.p.h., including Williwaws in the Aleutian Islands...